Links 8/2/2025

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1. The Rev Kev August 2, 2025 at 7:14 am

   “Decision delayed for pro-Palestine protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge as police warn of possible crowd crush”

   They got the go-ahead from the Supreme Court today. Needless to say, the usual groups are gnashing their teeth & rendering their garments over this-

   https://www.jwire.com.au/harbour-bridge-protest-to-proceed-after-court-ruling-as-jewish-leaders-warn-of-rising-tensions/

   If there are rising tensions, it is because of the deliberate starvation of children by Israel.

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2. Manny Autokart August 2, 2025 at 7:44 am

   Lol I didnt expect that link to Scotty Kilmer. He has to be taken with a grain of salt, but can have some good information occasionally. I do think that Uncle Tony’s Garage guy has some good things to say about planned obsolescence and the environment. I tune out once he start talking about buying precious metals and something about the Federal Reserve.

   If you want quality car repair videos, watch Eric Obrochta at South Main Auto Repair, Avoca NY. I learned a lot watching those.

   Rainman Ray isnt bad either.

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   1. Louis Fyne August 2, 2025 at 9:02 am

      on youtuber: The Car Care Nut (especially if for Toyota/Lexus owners);
      Honda: TE Videos (tiktok and youtube shorts);
      for general autos/esp. domestics: Car Wizard;
      for general auto/domestics, Royalty Automotive;
      for engine autopsies, “I Do Cars” engine teardowns

      Lots of quality info out there, no reason for anyone to be 100% ignorant on any topic. of course, the standard disclaimer—-don’t just go out and start copying something you see on a screen

      PS, Scotty is the king of a perfectly crafted clickbait headlines for the “Youtube Algo”.

      anyone in the car market has already known new-used car prices, part prices have gone insane since Covid—-while quality has become patchy, even among pre-Covid top-tier brand names.

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3. Mikel August 2, 2025 at 8:08 am

   “China isn’t “vying” for anything. The U.S. already gave up the AI crown…”

   Cool. Let someone else take the lead in what can also be a big social experiment. No objections here.

   However, US financial insanity around it has to be handled.

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4. The Rev Kev August 2, 2025 at 8:10 am

   ‘Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺
   @ejmalrai
   Brilliant diplomacy! Iran has internalised the hard lessons of past negotiations.
   In a firm and unapologetic statement, Foreign Minister @araghchi declared that U.S. presidential envoy @SteveWitkoff has requested a meeting—but that Tehran will only consider talks under two non-negotiable conditions: first, that Washington compensates Iran for the damage caused by its attacks on nuclear facilities; and second, that it recognises Iran’s sovereign right to enrich uranium on its own soil.’

   Turns out that Trump’s idea of copying the Japanese and attacking in the middle of negotiations was not a winner after all. Come to think of it, it wasn’t a winning idea for the Japanese either. I have read that where Iran mentions compensation for the damage caused by the US, that this is a way to demand that the US return to Iran all the billions that were seized from them years ago. If Iran is sounding confident, it may have to do with all those trainloads of military equipment that they have been receiving from China lately and whatever the Russians have done for them.

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   1. Ignacio August 2, 2025 at 9:00 am

      I believe that rather than confident the correct expression is fed up with. They know this comes with risks but complying with US and/or CW rules based order only brings forced misery to the end of times so the risk is worth taking.

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   2. moog August 2, 2025 at 9:15 am

      I would say that Iranian confidence comes from surviving the attack, and giving the enemy a bloody nose. There was a rise in confidence in Russia after the inital shock of SMO and hybrid attack of the Collective West, after it turned out that Russia is doing just fine in spite of everything.

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5. griffen August 2, 2025 at 8:13 am

   Instead of electric sheep, does the autonomous Waymo vehicles dream of their very own EV charger that belongs to them and they likewise to the EV charger??? \Sarc

   sweet fancy Moses. And these designs, or rather long pursued theories are now in practice, and are from broadly the same strata of superlative engineers employed to launch AI onto the face of humanity? Oh well I will trust their judgement of what they wanna accomplish in life….not so much.

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   1. The Rev Kev August 2, 2025 at 8:22 am

      I heard a long time ago that these EV cars are so silent, that they were thinking of adding sounds to them so pedestrians will not be caught unaware. So maybe with these Waymo vehicles that when they have an accident like this, they could give out a very distinct ‘Do’h!’ sound.

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6. griffen August 2, 2025 at 8:30 am

   Josh Hawley versus DJT on the former’s proposed legislation on stock trading by sitting Congress critters and US elected officials. They want to continue their “inside yet quasi okay cheating” methods, and the banquet of stock trades and “well timed” options trades must not be hindered or condemned! These US Senators all have families to feed, will no one think of their great grandchildren? ( mild sarcasm yes ).

   Below is but a short list. I really can’t stand to watch or to hear anything that Rick Scott has to say. But they who own the gold have always set the rules in a manner suited to their interests, am I right ?

   https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/041516/who-are-americas-7richest-senators.asp

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7. ChrisFromGA August 2, 2025 at 8:37 am

   And, whoop, there it is:

   Indian officials said on Saturday that they would keep purchasing cheap oil from Russia despite a threat of penalties from President Trump, the latest twist in an issue that New Delhi thought it had settled.

   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/world/asia/india-russia-oil-trump-threats.html

   Will TACO redirect the 2 nuke subs to the Bay of Bengal?

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   1. The Rev Kev August 2, 2025 at 8:53 am

      Wouldn’t be the first time. Back in ’71 Nixon sent the USS Enterprise Task Force against India as did the Brits to pressure them in a war they were fighting. But back then the Russians put themselves in between and stopped them so Nixon backed off-

      https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/t1493t/remembering_1971_when_the_us_threatened_india/

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8. Mikel August 2, 2025 at 8:52 am

   Really…you have to read the whole post about the captured British forces in Ukraine.
   It goes from James Bond adventure to Monty Python skit:

   “…Representatives of the British Foreign Office turned to the Russian Ministry of Defense with a request to return the British officers who had “lost their way” to Ukrainian territory. The official version from London: the detained officers were heading to Ukraine for tourist purposes and accidentally ended up in Ochakov. They were probably interested in naval history and wanted to visit the coast where battles took place during World War II.

   However, the detainees were not found with beach towels or cameras, but with maps with strategic objects on Russian territory, plans of Russian air defense, secret instructions for interaction with Ukrainian drone operators, as well as disks with encrypted data and records of negotiations with the British General Staff. Quite unusual propriety for tourists…”

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9. The Rev Kev August 2, 2025 at 9:08 am

   “Czech fatigue with Ukrainian refugees grows amid economic concerns”

   As soon as this war is over, there will be a lot of fatigue with Ukrainian refugees with the new refrain ‘Are you still here? Go home.’ The Ukraine, having served it purpose, will be dropped by most western countries and governments will start talking about the need to return those refugees so that they can ‘rebuild’ their country. It will be as cynical as it will be rapid.

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10. Mikel August 2, 2025 at 9:15 am

    Trump fires US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report – Financial Times. “Lead story. Full bore Trump insanity takes US official into late-stage USSR.”

    Not the only country that rewards good reports to the central government.

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    1. The Rev Kev August 2, 2025 at 9:26 am

       Can you imagine what it will be like when Powell finally steps aside and Trump puts in one of his yes (wo)men? One week he will order the interest rates to go up but halfway through the week he changes his mind and orders that they go down.The one day decides that they need to go way low and says that he will give the US economy two weeks while he makes up his mind. It will be a roller coaster. Wheeee!!

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11. dougie August 2, 2025 at 9:26 am

    Of the many potential reasons I might have guessed would have caused a bit of a kerfuffle with my spousal unit this morning, stating that I was no longer planning to travel with her to Portugal next year due to the EU requiring my biometric information for entry was not on my list.

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